Smoku,

I agree that Ovi on N900 is crap, But, I think that even if it was perfect on the uploading part, and support from Nokia Ovi QA part, it would have still been crap.

Reason :
- The exposure the Maemo 5 OS gets is limited to 1 device. N900.
- N900 was not soled in large quantities compared to other models of nokia or any other brand.
- Therefore, not many developers even care about maemo 5.
- So not many apps are ported/developed for the N900

On the other hand we have the competitors :
- Android, all apps run on multiple Hardware phones, because they share the same platform - So it doesn't matter how much exposure a specific phone model gets, what matters is the overall platform.
- Iphone, even though limited to a small number of hardware models, these models are so popular, that the number of developers is huge.
even all the protection methods Apple put didn't stop developers from doing everything.
Bluetooth, Wifi sharing, RDP, SSH, FTP, SCP, Flac, Video
Everything works on the iphone if you put some effort to it. (Excluding flash yeye).

After saying all the above, Nokia came forth and burried maemo 5 only to create Meego, ruining any chance of maemo 5 application market / future to ever evolve to a level even remotely close to the competitors.

The only question I have at the moment, is one for the future.
Will Meego suffer in the same manner? or will we really see lots of hardware companies distributing their phones with meego, resulting in large developer pool.
Also, will they support Meego in the long term? like android 1.6 is supported, and all apple phone have received multiple updates, allowing developers to keep developing for all of them at once?
Will Qt API ever be as powerful as the IPhone API? allowing developers to easily create Responsive, Good Looking, aesthetic games and apps?

Honestly, It's too early to know about Meego.
Even though I love My N900, i'm already looking at purchasing a new phone, (had n900 for 6 months now, wrote 1 app for it that I uploaded, and some other stuff I wrote for myself, the process was not pleasent.)
Probably i'll go for android 2.2 on some 1GHz device.

Edit :
1 Year ago I was laughing at all Iphone owners with my N95.
I really do think it is better then all of them iphones.
But with the N900 my opinion changed a bit.
But this could most definetly happen again in 2 years, where i'll be the owner of some HTC or Even Iphone 4, and Meego will be so attractive, i'll be posting the very same message on android/apple forums, and buy a meego device